SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL 87 59 47
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.40% 8.19% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.13% 31.55% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 49 36
10th Percentile £320 £347 £350
25th Percentile £413 £380 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £494
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -13.92% -1.25%
75th Percentile £600 £511 £619
90th Percentile £675 £575 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £27.59 - -
25th Percentile £36.49 - £25.26
Median hourly rate £52.67 - £27.13
75th Percentile £54.50 - £28.99
90th Percentile £54.80 - -
South West median hourly rate £45.33 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +25.92% +20.00% -58.90%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 333 187 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.50% 25.97% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 106 127
10th Percentile £380 £335 £358
25th Percentile £425 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% -10.80% +6.95%
75th Percentile £600 £548 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £660
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £535
% change year-on-year +10.53% -11.21% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 42 75
10th Percentile £55.13 - £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% -3.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £71.88
90th Percentile - £74.88 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -2.21% -2.86% +7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.75%) Confluence
2 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.30%) Apache
3 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Spreadsheet
2 9 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (8.05%) NEC Housing
2 6 (6.90%) Oracle Payroll
3 4 (4.60%) Maximo
4 3 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) Power Platform
2 15 (17.24%) Azure
3 14 (16.09%) AWS
4 13 (14.94%) dbt
4 13 (14.94%) GCP
5 10 (11.49%) OCI
5 10 (11.49%) Snowflake
6 7 (8.05%) Power Automate
7 5 (5.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.75%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (5.75%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.75%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Storage
8 4 (4.60%) Serverless
8 4 (4.60%) Vertex AI
9 3 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) WAN
3 2 (2.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) Power BI
2 8 (9.20%) Tableau
3 7 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 6 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.75%) BigQuery
5 5 (5.75%) RDBMS
5 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.60%) GIS
6 4 (4.60%) Looker
6 4 (4.60%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.30%) Metadata
7 2 (2.30%) Neo4j
7 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.30%) Power Query
7 2 (2.30%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (2.30%) Spatial Data
8 1 (1.15%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) JIRA
2 4 (4.60%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) Liquibase
3 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.30%) GitLab
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 18 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Finance
5 3 (3.45%) Local Government
5 3 (3.45%) Marketing
6 2 (2.30%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (27.59%) Developer
2 19 (21.84%) Data Engineer
3 18 (20.69%) Senior
4 15 (17.24%) Oracle Developer
5 10 (11.49%) Analyst
5 10 (11.49%) Software Developer
6 9 (10.34%) Architect
7 7 (8.05%) Applications Support
7 7 (8.05%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Data Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) GCP Data Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Applications Support
8 6 (6.90%) Support Officer
9 5 (5.75%) AWS Data Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) GCP Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Integration Manager
10 4 (4.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (9.20%) Terraform
3 6 (6.90%) REST
4 5 (5.75%) JSON
4 5 (5.75%) SOAP
5 4 (4.60%) HTML
5 4 (4.60%) JDBC
5 4 (4.60%) Middleware
5 4 (4.60%) XML
6 3 (3.45%) Kafka
6 3 (3.45%) RESTful
7 2 (2.30%) .NET
7 2 (2.30%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.30%) PySpark
7 2 (2.30%) React
7 2 (2.30%) Web Services
8 1 (1.15%) Node.js
8 1 (1.15%) OAuth
8 1 (1.15%) OpenID
8 1 (1.15%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.15%) Clustering
3 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.15%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.78%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (31.03%) Data Modelling
3 25 (28.74%) Analytics
3 25 (28.74%) Data Engineering
4 23 (26.44%) DevOps
5 20 (22.99%) Decision-Making
6 16 (18.39%) Agile
7 15 (17.24%) AI
8 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (14.94%) ETL
9 13 (14.94%) Validation
10 11 (12.64%) CI/CD
10 11 (12.64%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (12.64%) Visualisation
11 10 (11.49%) Information Security
11 10 (11.49%) Software Engineering
12 9 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (10.34%) Data Governance
13 7 (8.05%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (26.44%) Python
2 19 (21.84%) PL/SQL
3 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (5.75%) Java
5 2 (2.30%) C#
5 2 (2.30%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.15%) Bash
6 1 (1.15%) LookML
6 1 (1.15%) R
6 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.34%) Degree
4 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.99%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.34%) GDPR
3 7 (8.05%) QA
4 2 (2.30%) PMO
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Ansible
1 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) CASB
2 1 (1.15%) Grafana
2 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (27.59%) Oracle
2 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.49%) Google
4 7 (8.05%) Databricks
4 7 (8.05%) NEC
5 4 (4.60%) SAP
5 4 (4.60%) webMethods
6 3 (3.45%) Facebook
6 3 (3.45%) IBM
7 2 (2.30%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.15%) Alteryx